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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 03/07/06 18:36
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Dylan Parry wrote:
[IE]
> doesn't appear to support ⁎ or ⁎ either, so I would
> guess that you are pretty much out of luck.
I don't see any reason why IE would need to "support" it - it's just
another character in a font, in Plane-0, with no special properties -
if it's available in an appropriate font, it should just plain work,
when that font is used.
The catch is that it's not in WGL4.0, so the bog-standard fonts that
come with Windoze are less likely to contain it.
Hmmm, http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/unicode/unidata20.html#x204E
The fact that Mozilla is showing it for me, seems to prove that I've
got it *somewhere* in the Windows fonts on this XP system, but I would
need to hunt around to find which one it might be, and then
reconfigure IE to use the right one. Hmmm, Opera is showing it too.
This is where it *really* would be useful to know what font was being
*used* for the rendering (not merely which font is specified by the
preferences and CSS - that's easy!).
Hmmm, looks to me as if Moz. and Opera found it, in this particular
setup, in the font Aboriginal Sans. Yup, if I reconfigure MSIE to use
Aboriginal Sans as its default "Latin" font, this character appears,
and it (and its neighbours) look just like the ones which Mozilla and
Opera had found.
Surely it's easier (and safer all round) to install and use a
WWW-compatible browser, than to struggle along with that elderly
operating-system component that thinks it's a web browser? But of
course there's also one's sad readers to think about. Pathetic,
really.
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